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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: shale
shale
n : a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive
layers of clay
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Shale
Shale
\Shale\, v. t.
To take off the shell or coat of; to shell.
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Life, in its upper grades, was bursting its shell, or
was shaling off its husk. --I. Taylor.
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Shale
\Shale\, n. [AS. scealy, scalu. See
Scalme, and cf.
Shell.]
1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
“The green shales of a
bean.” --Chapman.
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2. [G. shale.] (Geol.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a
thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
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Bituminous shale. See under
Bituminous.
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